The story of 4 women who became the best of friends in the summer of 1970, and then rode that wave for 25 years to fill the sadness shaped holes in their lives. We watched 1995's coming of age classic, Now and Then, starring Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch, Demi Moore, and Rita Wilson.

Two brothers (maybe?) that are plumbers (definitely) save a princess (not the one you're thinking of) from the evil King Koopa (who you know as Bowser). The fuck, Nintendo? We talked about the 1993 adaptation of the beloved Super Mario Brothers video game, Super Mario Bros..

You can take the cop out of New York, but you can't take the yippe ki yay out of the mother fucker. We watched Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman wage the classic battle of street smarts vs book smarm in Die Hard (1988).

Adam Sandler is Billy Madison...a man child who uses his wealth to relive his glory days. We talked about a movie that's full of plot holes, but still made us laugh when the funny man yelled made up words, Billy Madison (1995).

Despite death's best attempts to warn him, Devon Sawa tries to die. Oh come, don't act like you care about Devon Sawa all of a sudden. You've barely thought about him in years. We discuss the first film in the franchise that launched dozens of overly-elaborate deaths, Final Destination (2000).

A scared boy learns to be brave with the help of books...psh, yeah fuggin' right... Ricky Ramirez (Flawed Podcast) joins us to discuss the not quite Disney, partially animated film from 1994, The Pagemaster. Starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, and the voices of Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Stewart.…

These 1950's teens aren't just horny, they're also racist! Two years before he gave us A Christmas Story, Bob Clark directed 1981's Porky's. It's the timeless story of a selfish teenagers, abusive parents, and decorative female characters.

A record store faces closing because THE MAN must ruin all that is good in this world. We try to keep it together as we talk Empire Records (1995) starring Liv Tyler, Rory Cochrane, Ethan Embry, Robin Tunney and Renée Zellweger.

A crazy version of the future where the police are robots who shoot first and ask questions later. We watched RoboCop (1987), and talked about director Paul Veerhoven's admission that he intended for RoboCop to be an "American Jesus with a gun."

Peter Pan's gots kids? We set a course for Hook (1991) starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. Join us as we set sail on a nostalgic voyage to plunder the depths of a fan theory about the original 1911 story "Peter and Wendy" in which Pan may have been murdering lost boys.

A bug eyed man with a vague job is tasked with coaching his boss' daughter's soccer team, and he handles it like anyone would...he dresses up his fiancee's son in drag and has him join the team. We talked 1992's Ladybugs, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Jonathan Brandis and Jackée Harry.

Michael Jackson, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Anjelica Huston, and the Disney company take a collective shit in this enormous waste of resources. In this episode we discuss Captain EO, the 18 minute 4-D film created to play in amusement parks...and one that has the distinction of being the most expensive (per minute) film ever made.…

John Travolta and Nicholas Cage are arch rivals who change faces and bad touch each others families. Super awesome dude and supportive fan of the podcast, Sean Farnsworth, joins us to talk about Face/Off (1997).

Before he was cruising the galaxy with Morty, Doc Brown was helping kids scam their parents into paying for a bogus NO RULES summer camp. We watched Camp Nowhere (1994), starring Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff from Back To The Future).

$5 a day and a room in the same hotel as Tia Carrere? America truly does have the best legal system. Matt and Cody examine Pauly Shore's Jury Duty (1995) and whether or not it's fair to say a movie held up if it was never any good to begin with.

Man, surfers are so fucking cool. And some of them rob banks! and Keanu Reeves is all like, whoooahhh. But then Swayze is like, brooo, you a secret agent? We talk the original 1911 Point Break and how it's a zen meditation on some cheeseball bs, but Lori Petty is pretty cool.

A man who clearly needs help dresses up like an old Scottish woman to deceive her family, and all we did was laugh. In this episode we take on the 1993 award winning movie, Mrs.Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams and Sally Field

Based on the Stephen King short story, The Body, Stand By Me tells the timeless coming of age tale about the right of passage all young men go through: lying to your parents, stealing a gun, smoking cigarettes, cursing like a sailor, and walking for a day and a half to see a dead body. We've all been there. Letty Tomlinson (A Little Help From M ...…

An underdog story about a youth baseball team of misfits coached by a drunk who lose like they're supposed to. The 1976 Bad News Bears starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal used the reckless adult behavior of their day to help pave the way for generations of underdog sports movies to follow.

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith are a mixed match pair of buddy cops who are bad people that are bad at their job. Alex Ybarra (Average Caucasian) joins the show to talk about Micheal Bay's early career hit, Bad Boys (1995).

A true celebration of violence. Matt and Cody talk Ernest Goes To Camp (1987), in which Ernest is bumped up from cleaning crew at a camp to the untrained counselor responsible for a group of awesomely dressed delinquent children.

A young boy has to prove to his family that aliens are real so that everyone will stop hating him. In this episode we talk about Mac and Me, a movie that looked at E.T. and said "that alien could look more like genitals".

Burt Reynolds pulls out his D right next to an 8 year old boy. There's another 90 minutes or so of movie around this where a kid is teamed up with a gruff cop, but pretty much this is the movie where Reynolds casually exposes himself to an 8 year old. Matt Stoner and Cody Dearing take on Cop and 1/2, the classic buddy cop movie about your worst ...…

Sometimes you hack the planet, and other times...the planet hacks you. Jake Milward is back on the show to talk about Hackers, the 1995 film the correctly guessed that their snapshot of technology at the time would age like a fine wine.

Stanley Ipkiss takes the red pill, and get's what is rightfully his. The girl, the money, the power, and the keeses. Frank Netscher (Fuck This Week) digs in with us to reveal the tender underbelly of what makes Jim Carrey's, The Mask, such an awful movie.

Rogue American soldiers steal chemical weapons, and threaten to launch them at San Francisco unless Nicholas Cage makes a hard turn in his acting career to become the balls crazy action badass we know and love today. In this episode we take on the Michael Bay/Jerry Bruckheimer action classic starring Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, and the doctor ...…

Keanu Reaves is just a normal dude with almost no skills stuck in a job he hates which can only me one thing, he's the most special person in existence and it's up to him to save humanity from robot-kind. Casie Luong glitches into the system with us as we nitpick hole's and dive into fan theories surrounding whether Neo is really the one in 199 ...…

Two psychotic best friends imagine themselves out of their depressing lives and into the glamorous world of public access TV. Robert Segovia joins the crew as we discuss Saturday Night Live's highest grossing movie, Wayne's World, starring Mike Meyers & Dana Carvey.

A teenager goes back in time to learn that he hates his dad, has the hots for his mom, and will forever be tormented by a broad shouldered doo-doo freak. Justin Soileau joins us again to talk about Back To The Future (1985), a fun film about incest the whole family can enjoy!

Young Dorothy thinks that she goes on an empowering adventure to the land of Oz, but it turns out it was all just a dream and her dog is still going to be killed. Can we trust Glenda the good witch? Are we sure Toto isn't a witch? We dug deep into the mountain of trivia, and dirty tid-bits about the 1939 classic the Wizard of Oz.…

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